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Kay Kim, piano; Oliver Stark, graduate conductor 

Bienen horn professor emerita Gail Williams (‘76 MMus) gives a farewell performance including her current students, a horn choir, and alumni performers. A member of the Bienen School faculty since 1989, Williams retired from her full-time position in Spring 2022 and has continued to teach part-time at the Bienen School. A member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1998, she was also a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and principal horn of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. Dedicated to performing and promoting chamber music, Williams is an original member of Summit Brass and founding member of Chicago Chamber Musicians, with whom her recording of Mozart works received a 2006 Grammy nomination. In 2005, she received the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Award from Northwestern. 

Ludwig van Beethoven (trans. Alan Civil), Egmont Overture 
Dana Wilson, Naturally, we shall meet again... 
Jean-Michel Damase, Berceuse, Op. 19 
Gunther Schuller, Chanson (Hommage à Darius Milhaud) from Trois Hommages 
Eric Whitacre (arr. Jon Almond), Sleep 
Ralph Vaughan Williams (trans. Norman Schweikert), Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis